Is the Covid-19 pandemic to end soon in Europe? As more and more scientists and epidemiologists are getting hopeful, the WHO thinks the end of the coronavirus pandemic is “plausible” on the old continent with the Omicron variant. “It's plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame”, World Health Organization Director for Europe Hans Kluge said. According to WHO, the Omicron variant is extremely contagious and could lead to the contamination of around 60% of the European population by March.
Covid: over half of Europe infected in the next two months, the WHO thinks
The Omicron variant is so contagious the WHO warns: over 50% of Europeans are likely to be contaminated by Covid-19 in the next six to eight weeks, according to the organization’s projections. [Read more]
Furthermore, once the current surge of Omicron currently sweeping across Europe subsides, "there will be for quite some weeks and months a global immunity, either thanks to the vaccine or because people have immunity due to the infection, and also lowering seasonality”, Kluge added.
Yet, the World Health Organization recommends caution, explaining we cannot talk about endemic, but “endemic means […] that it is possible to predict what's going to happen. This virus has surprised us more than once so we have to be very careful”, he insisted on.
A few days ago, the WHO feared the outbreak of more dangerous variants.
As some specialists are hoping to exit the crisis thanks to Omicron, WHO tries to stay more cautious. “The more Omicron spreads, the more it transmits and the more it replicates, the more likely it is to throw out a new variant," WHO senior emergencies officer Catherine Smallwood said. [Read more]
Covid: over half of Europe infected in the next two months, the WHO thinks
Covid: Omicron’s spread increases the risk of more dangerous variants emerging, according to WHO
